Kit Carson (1903)

Directed by

Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.

Genre

Western film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

21 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Kit Carson is a very early Western film from 1903. It shows scenes from the life of the famous frontiersman Kit Carson. The movie was filmed in the Adirondack Mountains.

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What happens

Kit Carson is one of the earliest Western films, being released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in October 1903. (According to silentera.com, portions may have been released the month before.) Part of the footage was reused in The Pioneers, another Western short also released by Biograph in October 1903. Both films were shot on location in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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